- November 24, 2006
November 24, 2006 - The USBscope50 in combination with the new LabVIEW and Agilent VEE driver support, developed by HACKER-DatenTechnik, marks a new era in ultra portable modular instrumentation for the PC or Notebook. Using a USB1.1 or USB2.0 port on the host computer, USBscope50 offers the best of all worlds for converting your PC into a powerful diagnostic tool: tiny size, low power, low cost, modularity, high performance and now programmable by the well known graphical programming languages LabVIEW and Agilent VEE. A single USBscope50 can be operated as a one-channel scope, or can be stacked with other USBscope50s to make a multi-channel solution. In this configuration, each module shares its phase and trigger status with the other modules in the stack ensuring tight channel-to-channel matching and concurrent triggering, plus each module retains a dedicated USB connection to the host ensuring independent configurability. USBscope50 is small enough to be carried in a shirt pocket or laptop bag and yet retains features normally reserved for scopes 10 times its size. It uses standard BNC type scope probes, and is powered directly from the host port. It can be directly plugged into a host USB port or can be connected via a standard male-to-female USB cable. In multi-channel mode, this cabled operation is required and typically an external USB Hub would be used to provide the extra USB ports.To support customers who wish to write their own software for the USBscope50, a Software Development Kit is available. Using the SDK will allow the scope to be embedded in a user’s application or will allow creation of drivers for 3rd party instrumentation software.The SDK comprises a Dynamic Link Library for Windows 32, supporting Win98/Me/2K/XP, together with full documentation for each of the function calls, header files for C/C++ and Visual Basic as well as working example code for Visual Basic 6 and Visual C 6. The VB6 demos offer working GUI implementations and even include a full source code release of the USBscope50 application software as shipped with the scope product. This will give developers a significant time-to-market advantage, as they will be able to see the techniques and methods used to create the standard software. The USBscope50 is available on stock and costs 295 EUR. The SDK and the LabVIEW and Agilent VEE driver support are included in the standard delivery package.